Picked this (and a fifth Timolino – yes, I’m ridiculous) up on Saturday after enjoying an in-store sample. I’m reasonably impressed – I’d heard it was quite gingery, and that’s certainly accurate, but the pear flavour is definitely discernible as well, and quite juicy. Because of the ginger it can’t quite satisfy that weird desire I have for a perfect pear tea, but it’s pretty enjoyable. The first infusion is most pear-y; after that, the ginger takes over. Overall a pretty decent tea, particularly if you like ginger!
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I have like 8 contigos so I can’t point fingers.
I have 5 Contigos and 5 Timolinos. However, the lids of my Contigos are all gross, which makes me sad. Gross as in, they’ve accumulated flavours and won’t let go of them, and it ruins tea I put into them. Hopefully I can fins a solution, because I do quite like them as well, but I’m gravitating towards the Timolinos because they clean pretty well and don’t seem to ruin teas in the same way.
soak them for a while in vinegar or something? If you’re not using them anyway because they’re gross, you can just fill up a bucket and leave them for a while
I was debating bleach. I believe I have tried vinegar, and separately, baking soda, but no dice. Maybe a cleaning brush would help too.
I would have suggested bleach but then you have a bleach smell.
Yeah – I was concerned about that. It’s frustrating. I wouldn’t mind if the smells they accumulated were of flavoured teas I liked, but usually it’s a flavoured tea that was gross, or alternately, I neglected to clean the mug promptly and it smells kind of moldy/nasty. Sigh.
I had to deep clean the breville for the mold thing once. Took like 8 boilings before the bleach smell came out
Smart Soak? :D
Oh – is that the stuff Mandala sells?
yes… it’s great. you get a free ounce of is with the puerh sampler if it’s still around.
Interesting.
I DID use the smart soak. It STILL took a long time for the bleach smell to come out. It was beautifully sparkling clean at the end though.
Hmmmm… perhaps I should get some. Although I don’t need more tea with it, haha.
Smartsoak OR if you’re cheap, try denture tablets. Just don’t use the extra minty ones. And hot hot water.
I have like 8 contigos so I can’t point fingers.
I have 5 Contigos and 5 Timolinos. However, the lids of my Contigos are all gross, which makes me sad. Gross as in, they’ve accumulated flavours and won’t let go of them, and it ruins tea I put into them. Hopefully I can fins a solution, because I do quite like them as well, but I’m gravitating towards the Timolinos because they clean pretty well and don’t seem to ruin teas in the same way.
soak them for a while in vinegar or something? If you’re not using them anyway because they’re gross, you can just fill up a bucket and leave them for a while
I was debating bleach. I believe I have tried vinegar, and separately, baking soda, but no dice. Maybe a cleaning brush would help too.
I would have suggested bleach but then you have a bleach smell.
Yeah – I was concerned about that. It’s frustrating. I wouldn’t mind if the smells they accumulated were of flavoured teas I liked, but usually it’s a flavoured tea that was gross, or alternately, I neglected to clean the mug promptly and it smells kind of moldy/nasty. Sigh.
I had to deep clean the breville for the mold thing once. Took like 8 boilings before the bleach smell came out
Smart Soak? :D
Oh – is that the stuff Mandala sells?
yes… it’s great. you get a free ounce of is with the puerh sampler if it’s still around.
Interesting.
I DID use the smart soak. It STILL took a long time for the bleach smell to come out. It was beautifully sparkling clean at the end though.
Hmmmm… perhaps I should get some. Although I don’t need more tea with it, haha.
Smartsoak OR if you’re cheap, try denture tablets. Just don’t use the extra minty ones. And hot hot water.